Full Description
In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety of 'parallel' proposals is provided in the present volume. The articles derive from papers read at the "Challenges of Minimalism" session of the Open Linguistics Forum, held in Ottawa, in March 1997. This OLF meeting started as a graduate student initiative, but because of the topic chosen, attracted a wide and international audience. The twenty contributions are grouped in five sections: I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; III.Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena; V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; 3. Integral Minimalism (by Bouchard, Denis); 4. A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition (by Powers, Susan M.); 5. A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program (by Ura, Hiroyuki); 6. Checking on CHECKING (by Armon-Lotem, Sharon); 7. Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 (by Whitman, John); 8. On the Role of Interpretability (by Nakamura, Masanori); 9. SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; 10. Head-to-Spec Movement (by Toyoshima, Takashi); 11. Polish Optional Movement (by Szczegielniak, Adam); 12. Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation (by Plunkett, Bernadette); 13. Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 14. On Covert Movement and LF (by Simpson, Andrew); 15. SECTION III. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; 16. The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for strong [case] (by Legate, Julie Anne); 17. Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected Infinitivals (by Csirmaz, Aniko); 18. That-t Effects in English and Yiddish (by Hoge, Kerstin); 19. Evidence for Focus Features (by Motapanyane, Virginia); 20. [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions (by Zhang, N.); 21. SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena; 22. A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy (by Oku, Satoshi); 23. A/A-bar Movement and Attract-F (by Romero-Morales, Juan); 24. SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations; 25. Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for Minimalism (by Bartos, Huba); 26. Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax (by Silva-Villar, Luis); 27. Article abstracts; 28. Index of names
